Students go all out to celebrate with teachers on virtual platforms
Kolkata: Almost every school in the city celebrated Teachers’ Day on virtual platforms. The celebrations took on a more varied appearance than in earlier years and went on for longer. Children sent out theme-based invitations, danced on their rooftops, spoke from their bedrooms and acted from their balconies while teachers obliged by agreeing to don theme-based clothes and accompanying their students in their recitals.
Teachers at Loreto Elliot Road were delighted to receive the almost professionally designed “Transformers” invitation from students, asking them to join the online platform at the appointed time. The programme included drama, songs, elocution, reading and dancing. “We realized that this was put together after months of planning and practice when students understood that the lockdown would be extended,” said Nandini Bhattacharya, a senior teacher of the school. Each teacher was given a special card with messages from the students.
The applause seemed unending in the hundreds of homes of students and teachers of DPS Ruby Park at the end of the action-packed programme.
“It was like we were sitting in the auditorium. The barriers melted as we focussed on the performances presented with love and such finesse,” said vice-principal Indrani Chattopadhyay.
Virtual awards were given to the teachers of DPS Howrah for dressing up as Disney princes and princesses while those who did not keep to the theme were punished, but all in a light-hearted manner.“Teachers even enjoyed the novel punishments where they had to mouth filmy dialogues that students handed them,” said principal Sunita Arora.
The St James’ School Boys followed the same celebration pattern like other years, though the medium had changed for the first time. Students spoke about how different it was from the other years’ class parties and classroom decorations. “It was a perfectly synchronized programme shot from students’ homes and put together before live streaming at 10am,” said senior teacher Joseph Chacko.
Teachers at Loreto Elliot Road were delighted to receive the almost professionally designed “Transformers” invitation from students, asking them to join the online platform at the appointed time. The programme included drama, songs, elocution, reading and dancing. “We realized that this was put together after months of planning and practice when students understood that the lockdown would be extended,” said Nandini Bhattacharya, a senior teacher of the school. Each teacher was given a special card with messages from the students.
Themes of adaptivity, joy, happiness, creativity and patience were brought forth in the programmes the students of Loreto Entally presented. “The theme was ‘You Lift Me Up’ and we felt uplifted at the end of it,” admitted school principal Jessica Surana Gomes.
The applause seemed unending in the hundreds of homes of students and teachers of DPS Ruby Park at the end of the action-packed programme.
“It was like we were sitting in the auditorium. The barriers melted as we focussed on the performances presented with love and such finesse,” said vice-principal Indrani Chattopadhyay.
Virtual awards were given to the teachers of DPS Howrah for dressing up as Disney princes and princesses while those who did not keep to the theme were punished, but all in a light-hearted manner.“Teachers even enjoyed the novel punishments where they had to mouth filmy dialogues that students handed them,” said principal Sunita Arora.
The St James’ School Boys followed the same celebration pattern like other years, though the medium had changed for the first time. Students spoke about how different it was from the other years’ class parties and classroom decorations. “It was a perfectly synchronized programme shot from students’ homes and put together before live streaming at 10am,” said senior teacher Joseph Chacko.
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